Del Naja said: “Dear Pete Tong, thanks for covering one of our songs on your nostalgia nightmare roadtrip roadshow. I don’t recollect you getting in touch to see if we would mind, but for your information.

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Speaking about the collaboration, Del Naja said: “I was deeply moved by the pictures he was sending me. What’s really shocking is that you could be looking at photographs from any time in the last 100 years of a crisis involving refugee migration and war. And what’s terrifying is you think ‘nothing’s changed, and that is what we have to engage with because this is not the past. This is now.”

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BBC Radio 1 DJ Pete Tong is currently touring with his Ibiza Classics album, which includes orchestral covers of electronic hits.

In the Facebook post directed at Tong, Del Naja said: “If you do mean to carry on coining it, why don’t you divide your nightly profit by the number of songs you murder in your set, and hand the total of that one song over to UNHCR.